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Originally Posted by donnamatrix
Monday night (8/30) we saw one of the parents - he caught a fish that seemed way to big for him to swallow-but he managed it!
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It was perhaps 2 weeks ago I saw a loon doing just that a few hundred feet off our dock. At first I couldn't make out what he was doing. He kept "slapping" whatever he had caught into the water and tossing it about, like a cat playing with some animal it's caught. I wasn't even sure what it was ... I was wondering if loons play with driftwood just for fun ? Finally he got the fish oriented head down and hoisted it up to slide down his gullet and then I could see it was indeed a fish. I snapped a few pics with the longest lens I had. I'll see if I can find one where the fish is recognizable as such and post it. Odd to have loons in this part of Alton bay that time of year ...